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Pryor, born circa 1769, died circa 1817, Williamson County, Tennessee, also moved to Davidson County in 1800. Betty married Edwin Hickman.93
    Susannah’s seven Marr children also moved from Henry County, Virginia, to Davidson County, Tennessee, in 1800, with Thomas and Susannah Hardeman. They were: George Washington Lent Marr, John Marr, William Miller Marr, Sally J. Marr Hardeman, Constant Hardin Perkins Marr, Peter Nicholas Marr, and Agatha Ann Marr. Sally J. Marr (Susannah’s daughter) had married Constant Hardeman (Thomas’s son) in Henry County, in 1799. Susannah Perkins Pryor Marr Hardeman was Constant Hardeman’s mother-in-law, stepmother, and aunt.
    26 December 1800, Thomas Hardeman of Davidson County, Tennessee, sold to Joseph Phillips, for $1360, 640 acres on Little Harpeth, was the preemption granted to Hardeman by patent, 16 December 1791, adjoining northeast corner of Samuel McCutchen’s preemption, and adjoining Daniel Dunham on the west.94
    10 September 1802, John Gray Blount of Beaufort County, North Carolina, and Thomas Blount of Edgecomb County, North Carolina, by Will Blount their attorney in fact, sold to Thomas Hardeman of Davidson County, Tennessee, for $640, 640 acres on Big Harpeth, tract being located in January 1786 and surveyed in May 1793.95
    10 November 1802, Thomas Hardeman of Davidson County, sold to Eleazar Hardeman, for $600, 640 acres on both sides of Big Harpeth, beginning west of Commissioners old line on Big South Road on Big Harpeth, adjoining Patrick McCutchen’s west boundary line, tract is part of two tracts sold by John Gray Blount and Thomas Blount by their attorney in fact Willis Blount to said Thomas.96

    93 Davidson County, Tennessee, Court Minutes, 6 October 1789. Hickman, Hay, & Crutcher against James Bosley and Daniel Smith. Bond signed by Edwin Hickman and John Pryor. Court minutes, 10 January 1792, John Pryor of Henry County, Virginia.
    94 Joyce Martin Murray, Williamson County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts 1799-1811 (Dallas, Texas, 1991), p. 9. Deed Book A1, p. 92. Witnesses: J. Wharton, Tho. Childress, Wm. Black.
    95 Murray, Williamson County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts 1799-1811, p. 20. Deed Book A1, p. 264. Recorded 29 January 1803. Witnesses: B. Searcy, Robt. Searcy. Ack. before Andw. Jackson, Judge for said state.
    96 Murray, Williamson County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts 1799-1811, p. 22. Deed Book A1, p. 294. Ack. before Andrew Jackson, Judge Superior Court. Recorded 23 April 1803.